2023 Travel News Archive – Page 8

The Ministry of Tourism announced a new record of 7 million tourists for the first eight months of 2023. Minister Collado considered that the Dominican tourism sector is experiencing the best of times. He forecast the goal of 10 million tourists would be reached this year. “We are talking that in eight months we have …

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President Luis Abinader announced last week that the Cabo Rojo cruise ship port in the new destination of Pedernales will receive its first cruise ship on 18 December 2023. Royal Caribbean has scheduled a 3,000-cruise passenger ship to be the first to dock at the port that is developed by the Mexican company ITM Group. …

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Elton John is returning to the Dominican Republic to perform at the El Dorado Park Amphitheater in Cap Cana official opening concert. The performance will be at the Legend Arena on Friday, 6 October 2023 in Cap Cana, the southern Punta Cana residential and touristic area. Elton John has just recently concluded his Farewell Yellow …

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Tourism Minister David Collado and Education Minister Ángel Hernández have signed an inter-institutional agreement to incorporate tourism-related subjects in public schools and improve the programs at high schools and polytechnics that already have tourism programs. The agreement joins efforts of the two ministries to promote tourism and foster learning and creating a civic culture in …

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Tourism Minister David Collado announced road improvements for RD$52,946,746 in the southeastern coastal beach town of Bayahibe. The roads seek to improve the connection between the different communities in the municipality. “These works are just the beginning of everything we have to turn this destination into a true model because Bayahibe’s time has come,” Minister …

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Preparations are far advanced for the start of the National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores) 35th Commercial Exhibition in Punta Cana. The event will take place at Blue Mall Punta Cana from 6 to 8 September 2023. An area of more than 4,000 square meters has been set aside for the 160 companies that will …

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Architectural Digest has included a feature on a renovated barn house in Jarabacoa, the mountain vacation destination in central La Vega province. Interestingly, the owner of the house took a century-old Pennsylvania English-style barn house and reassembled it for his dream house in the mountains, adding porches and other complements to the wooden structure now …

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The Dominican Republic awaits the brunt of Tropical Storm Franklin on Wednesday and Thursday, but with the storm yet km away, it is already raining heavily on Tuesday, 22 August 2023. Weather forecasters as of early morning Tuesday, 22 August 2023 say the storm is moving very slowly (3mph) in a NW direction that would …

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The director of the Dominican Port Authority, Jean Luis Rodríguez announced that construction is advanced on the touristic and fishing port in Cabeza de Toro, part of the Punta Cana touristic area. The port is less than a 15-minute drive from the Punta Cana International Airport. The new dock has a “T” type jetty with …

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President Luis Abinader issued Decree 47-23 that declares La Vega as an ecotourism province. The decree will bring tax incentive advantages for tourism development in the province. The decree creates the Ecotourism Development Council of the province of La Vega presided by the Minister of Tourism. Other members are representatives of the ministries of Culture, …

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